Recent posts by cpasley on Kongregate
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8 hours ago ago
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Topic: Kongregate / Argue (about everything) Ah, I bet I know why. Roger’s changed how logins work to recognize your kong login on the server side, and since he’s working on a new version incorporating those changes, didn’t update the old alpha one. The new version will be out soon, with a redesign lobby system and some new bells and whistles. |
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9 hours ago ago
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Topic: Kongregate / Argue (about everything) It’s still going. We’re actually hoping to go full Beta on this one soon. |
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14 hours ago ago
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08! What’s interesting is that he actually did. Maybe put down the talking points and read the speech, mmkay? |
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15 hours ago ago
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08! I dare you to make less sense. |
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15 hours ago ago
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08!
Did you listen to the speech last night? I don’t think he could have answered that question better than he did. I’ve never heard McCain talk so specifically about what he wants to do. All McCain can do is try to scare you into not voting for Obama. |
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16 hours ago ago
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Topic: Serious Discussion / McCain 08 She seems like a horrible pick to me. I haven’t heard her speak, so I don’t know a whole lot about her, but it’s clear that she was a novelty pick by McCain who’s trying to drum up even the slightest bit of enthusiasm behind his campaign in the face of Obama’s dynamism.
Was she there? No? Then that’s completely irrelevant.
Right. Leaders who abuse their power for personal reasons is exactly who we need running the country. Like we didn’t get enough of that in the past eight years. She completely deflates McCain’s experience argument, and as the oldest nominated head of a major party in history, there’s a real possibility he may die before he finishes his term (Not that I hope he does, but face it, he’s old and being President is a stressful job). After all the hooplah he’s raised that Obama’s not ready to be president, McCain wants us to believe that he genuinely thinks Palin is? Not to mention that she has publically stated that she has no idea what the vice president actually does. I could be completely wrong, but this seems like a flop of a try to get headlines, not a pairing that will help him govern should he win. |
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Aug 29, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / New card art! Great. Now I’ll never be able to look at that card without thinking that’s what he’s saying. |
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Aug 28, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / New card art!
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Aug 28, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / McCain 08 McCain has followed his neocon predecessors into the era of government by soundbite. Fact: Iraq did not attack us. We invaded under false pretenses. Fact: More people have died as a result of the war to “liberate” Iraq than Saddam ever killed. Fact: There is no “winning” the war in Iraq. It’s a war of ideology. The Iraqis have to chart their own path and we’re in the way. Fact: The so-called fiscal conservatives have sold the country to China for these wars. The deficit is the largest in history. Ok. With me so far? McCain wants credit for the success of the surge, and while the violence has lessened as a result, the goal indented for the surge – buying more time for the Iraqis to settle their government – has not. Their government is still in shambles. A better decision would be to not have sent the troops in the first place, which is what Obama would have done. McCain divorced his first wife because she had been injured in a car crash and wasn’t as pretty as she used to be. McCain was one of the Keating Five. Look it up. McCain will support anything for political gain, and has said so himself. McCain doesn’t believe in diplomacy. His only tool in foreign policy negotiations is war. Obama’s not perfect. But he’s a hell of a lot better than a career politician who is so in love with the idea of being president that he’ll throw away all the beliefs he firmly declared only eight years ago simply to get his name in the history books. |
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Aug 28, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / Amazons
One of these statements is a lie. |
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Aug 27, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate needs Nitrome Games Nitrome actually came to visit us last week. We’re hopeful that they’ll put their games up on Kongregate. ;) |
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Aug 27, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08! Not if the war in Iraq is any indication. It’s still pretty unpopular. |
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Aug 27, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama 08! I think Obama can hit hard when he wants to. You don’t get successful in Chicago politics unless you can. I think after the convention he’ll start turning the heat up. All it would take is one truthful attack ad: “John McCain touts his foreign policy experience. But as the record shows, John McCain only has one solution for foreign policy crises: WAR.” |
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Aug 26, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address
Personally, I don’t like that it’s a numerical rank. I wanted it to be iconic, or given named ranks. |
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Aug 26, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address
No. |
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Aug 26, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / State of Kongai Address
We wanted people who devoted a lot of time into playing Kongai but didn’t want to be in the competitive Ranked Matches to feel like they were achieving something. That’s why the player levels only count how many matches you’ve won and does not penalize you for how many you’ve lost. It was modeled after the system used in Halo 3, where you have a skill number and a seperate “rank” which rewards you for games won.
Kongbot is there for people to practice getting familiar with the cards and how they work, not necessarily for practicing strategy. We thought we were pretty thorough with the combination of instructions and quick tips as a way to learn the game mechanics. But we can’t play the game for the players. We thought about doing a more in-depth strategy suggestion tutorial, but the way Kongai is made, there is no “correct” strategy, as your opponent could have figured out what you’re going to do and counter it. Those are skills you only learn by playing.
What’s vague about them? I thought they were pretty clear and specific without miring a new player in a huge explosion of complicated text.
Unfortunately, people aren’t using Ranked match the way it was intended. It’s there to match people based on similar level, but there’s not currently enough people playing it to be effective.
That’s exactly what the Quick Tips are. |
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Aug 26, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / The Best Kongregate Avatar! Mine! Cause no one gets the reference! |
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Aug 26, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Should women fight in war? (on the frontlines) I don’t think physical limitations mean much when you’ve got an M16 in hand. |
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Aug 22, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / Dinowaurs Beta Testers Wanted Hooray! Another thousand people have been let in! If you think you’re one of the thousand (chosen first come first served from this thread) click here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/intuition/dinow… If not, just wait a bit. Everyone will get in eventually. |
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Aug 21, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Hunter gatherer thread- continued
yes
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No. Wait, I mean yes.
And many crazies were just crazy. |
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Aug 21, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / Dinowaurs Beta Testers Wanted That’s because we’re still not letting everyone in yet. But soon! |
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Aug 21, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Hunter gatherer thread- continued I like specialization. I don’t want to spend all day hunting. I’d rather make Flash games. |
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Aug 21, 2008
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Topic: Serious Discussion / Political IQ [AX] Give a small tax incentive for voting (nobody would pay to vote, but a ton of people would vote to save money) Maybe then require a test of where you had to accurately assign each candidate’s position on key issues in order to vote. (And get maybe 80% right.) I dunno, just off the top of my head. And sorry to see you go ee80. I disagree with much about your political platform, but I’ve enjoyed our arguments. |
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Aug 20, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / New card art! We may, in light of your feedback and other considerations, retouch the pirates and the robots with Udon. ...... ...... That is all. Go about your business. Nothing to see here. |
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Aug 20, 2008
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Topic: Kongregate / I have a dream- A Kongai dream! There isn’t any official history to the Kongai characters, but we may introduce one at some point, just to keep you guessing. ;) That said, I’ve been hoping some people would try to define a history on their own. Whether we’ll take it as canon or not remains to be seen. ;) |
